Night falls over Manastur.For interpretations of the “night” August theme in City Daily Photo Blog community click here to view thumbnails for all participants from around the world.
Night falls over Manastur.
Suburban development on the west side of the city. Bator and Lunitie Hills are seen beyond Floresti Village.
The Central Shopping Center was recently renovated and they added a copper net texture to some surfaces of the building. Also, some old pictures of the city were displayed behind mannequins in the windows.
A contemporary image of the old medieval city center: red roofed houses surrounding the St. Michael's Cathedral.
Havana panoramic restaurant empty by midday.
An elegant gentelman and a charming lady on a billboard advertising an Italian beer between some creepy packed and deteriorated blocks of flats, in Mihai Viteazu Square.
It is largely known as the capital-city of the historical province of Transylvania - land of medieval citadels, wild crags, caves and forests, and the famous figure of Dracula.
Historically speaking Cluj was settled as a colony by the Romans (Colonia Aurelia Napoca) by the 2nd century CE, from where came the name of Napoca, and thereafter developed as fortress and city by the Hungarians, Saxons and Austrians - which conferred it the cultural, architectural, and urban influences of the multicultural Central Europe. Romanians, who constantly were the dominant rural population around the city, became the city rulers in 1918, when Transylvania became part of Romania, and developed it, especially within the Communist regime, after the 1947, by constructing large industries and working-class neighborhoods.
Along its history, Cluj acknowledged periods of progress and illuminism - sustained by a notable university and the medical and legal centers developed here already since the 16th century - together with warfare, nationalistic and religious troubles and stagnation - due to medieval invasions, far-right politics encouraging hostilities between Magyars and Romanians, and religious tensions between Greek-Catholics and Greek-Orthodoxs.
Today it is considered among the major hotbeds of development regarding the human capital in the region - due to its large number of university students, vibrant culture, safe social and economic environment, and perspectives for further development.